Post Driver Hydraulic Hook-Up?

[Jim_Fisher]

Good evening, Jim --

Reply in order of your comments:

In the factory picture, there doesn't appear to be an extension now nor does there appear to be one in the enclosed attached picture that I found on-line last night. That unit also seems to be the same as the one currently available.

I found out about the diversion of power today when I used the post driver for the first time!

Since I don't have an adapter yet for the fill hole, I simply took the 1" return pipe, choked it down to 3/4" pipe thread and put it loosely in the fill hole -- worked just fine after I secured it -- lost a bit of fluid prior to doing that.

What I did on the pressure side was what has been discussed earlier in the thread -- I used the "down curl" port after I had lifted the forklits up at an upward angle to hold poles and strapped the forklift to the front guard to keep it from tilting. This seems to work well since the angle of the forks should not vary during post driving operations.

Glad that you got it working!

One caveat on using the down side of the curl circuit. There is a regenerative function in the dual scv that routes return fluid to the pressure side to speed the dump of the bucket. You'll want to lock it out by selecting the middle position of the lock mechanism (the icon that looks like a book).